You betcha-- I've always maintained that at my core heaven is a distance, not a place. I'm interested in the journey and not necessarily the destination. But as a matter of course I'm usually trying to get out of my comfort zone and try new things, so quantifying contentment even in the journey is not as easy as it looks.
Is it a copout if I say I'm most happy in my skin during those times when my head and my heart most overlap?
In the last couple of years I've been spending more time in my head than in my heart, and while I like it there and am proud of the progress I've been making there, I'm not really content until those moments when I'm more equally in my head and my heart.
Clearing an easier path to that balance is a more pointed goal for me right now so I've been thinking a lot about this.
The mental space where I am most happy - when I am inspired by a beautiful song, place, angle of sun, whatever, and my mind reaches out to the mystery that I perceive in it. It's really hard to put into words but that is the best way I can think to describe it. Those moments bring such wonder and joy! Then there is more subtle, peaceful contentment.... laughing with my honey, standing in the kitchen with incense burning and just the right music on...
funny how happiness/contentment for me has so much to do with creating the right aesthetic environment, or at least is strongly associated with it.
funny how happiness/contentment for me has so much to do with creating the right aesthetic environment, I don't know, simply being where you are and aware of it sounds pretty awesome. Thanks for your point of view, luv!
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anonymous
April 15 2009, 16:32:49 UTC
at first it seems like an easy question but when I started thinking about it.... the physical place i have been most happiest in was dahab in the sinai desert. the physical space i have always been most happiest is in the embrace of someone i love (insert cheesey soundtrack) as sad as it is i am it seems most happy in the past.
at first it seems like an easy question but when I started thinking about it.... I'm picking up what you're layin' down, my man. Also, I say embrace the cheesy soundtrack of love and to hell with the commodification of it. Viva loving embraces! Viva! :D
it seems most happy in the past. This is an excellent point, in that when we are experiencing contentment it is as we flow along and are content with that flow. Only in retrospect can we quantify the moment.
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In the last couple of years I've been spending more time in my head than in my heart, and while I like it there and am proud of the progress I've been making there, I'm not really content until those moments when I'm more equally in my head and my heart.
Clearing an easier path to that balance is a more pointed goal for me right now so I've been thinking a lot about this.
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funny how happiness/contentment for me has so much to do with creating the right aesthetic environment, or at least is strongly associated with it.
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I don't know, simply being where you are and aware of it sounds pretty awesome. Thanks for your point of view, luv!
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the physical place i have been most happiest in was dahab in the sinai desert.
the physical space i have always been most happiest is in the embrace of someone i love (insert cheesey soundtrack)
as sad as it is i am it seems most happy in the past.
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I'm picking up what you're layin' down, my man. Also, I say embrace the cheesy soundtrack of love and to hell with the commodification of it. Viva loving embraces! Viva! :D
it seems most happy in the past. This is an excellent point, in that when we are experiencing contentment it is as we flow along and are content with that flow. Only in retrospect can we quantify the moment.
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